Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 839.00/1737.

Chargé Johnson to the Secretary of State.

[Extract.]¹⁰

No. 193.]

American Legation,
Santo Domingo, July 30, 1915.

Sir: Referring to my despatch No. 189 dated July 22, 1915, I have the honor to enclose * * * copy and translation of the reply to my note of protest against the diversion of funds, copy of which I enclosed in the despatch referred to above. * * *

As for the statement in the Dominican Government’s note that the budget has not been exceeded, it is in contradiction of what the President himself had said to me on two occasions, and at best is technically true only; for example, the entire credit provided in the budget for the fiscal year from July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916, may not yet have been exceeded.

I have [etc.]

Stewart Johnson.

10. This despatch No. 193 is printed in full under Political Affairs, p. 292; the translation of the reply here referred to is there shown as inclosure 2.